safety training programmes - august 2004
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HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING COURSES
A comprehensive programme of courses covering aspects of health and safety in the Education and Cultural Services Department is listed below.
Additional courses can be arranged to meet individual section requirements
For further information, contact the Health and Safety Section, Facilities Management, Hamilton Building, Birkenhead, on 666 5601/5602/4693.
1. Basic Health and Safety Awareness – one day2. Managing Safety – two days3. Personal Safety at Work – one day4. Design Technology Workshops – one day5. Manual Handling – half day6. Safe Working with Display Screen Equipment – half day7. Risk Assessment for Teachers – half day8. Safe Use of Access Equipment – half day9. Competency in General Risk Assessments – one day10. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health – half day11. Fire Safety Awareness – half day12. Managing Health and Safety in Education – one day
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BASIC HEALTH AND SAFETY AWARENESS
ONE DAY COURSE: 9.30am – 4.30pm
This course is suitable for all levels of personnel, and is essential learning for a safe and healthy work environment.
TOPICS COVERED
General Health and Safety Manual Handling
Occupational Health A Safe and Healthy Workplace
Work Equipment Accidents
Electricity Fire Safety
Legislation First Aid
On completion a 30 minute exam will be held. Everything you need to know for this will be covered on the course.
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MANAGING SAFETY
2 DAY COURSE
Who should attend?
This comprehensive two day course provides managers from all departments with a basic introductory grounding in health and safety at work. It concentrates on training delegates to apply sound management principles to health and safety, and is divided into eight modules as follows:
1. General approach.
2. Accident and injury causes.
3. Management of safety.
4. Human factors affecting safety.
5. Health and Safety law.
6. Communicating health and safety effectively.
7. Common hazards. ]] Risk Assessment.
8. Specialised hazards. ]
Benefits of Attending
Delegates will be introduced to the principles of health and safety at work, gaining an appreciation of the responsibilities they and the authority have towards employees. Managers will gain skills and knowledge enabling them to safely manage activities in the workplace. By the end of the course delegates will have acquired capabilities to:
Apply basic management principles to safety and health issues.
Recognise safety and health hazards in the workplace.
Ensure that adequate health and safety training and supervision of staff is provided.
Identify what actions should be taken when incidents involving injury or damage occur.
Communicate effectively on safety and health issues.
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PERSONAL SAFETY AT WORK
ONE DAY
Who should attend?
This programme is designed for particular groups of staff with particular needs because of the risks they face – for example, reception staff, travelling staff such as advisers, inspectors, welfare officers, youth workers, lone-workers, teachers between sites, staff who visit clients homes or premises.
Aim
To provide participants with practical knowledge of steps they can take to keep safe.
Objectives
At the end of the programme, delegates will be able to:
Identify potential areas of risk in their work;
Describe practical steps they can take to keep safe in the course of their work;
Develop an action plan describing the steps they will take:- to change the way they work- to bring about changes- procedures to ensure safety- to obtain help, support and resources they need.
Contents
Introduction
Violence at work and its effects
The risks of violence
Safe procedures
Action plan
Evaluation
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HEALTH & SAFETY
D.T. WORKSHOPS
ONE DAY
Who should attend?
Design and Technology (resistant materials)
Aims
To outline current legislation as it effects technicians in school workshops.
Explain the process of risk assessment and the technicians’ role within the process.
Explain the process of the COSHH regulations.
To consider the relevant sources of information and instruction on safe workshop practice and procedures.
PROGRAMME
Relevant regulations
Employees Liability
Work Equipment
COSHH regulations
Electrical safety
Risk assessment
P.P.E.
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MANUAL HANDLING COURSE
HALF DAY
Who should attend?
Anyone involved in moving, carrying, in the course of their work.
Aims
This half day workshop is aimed at raising awareness in the safe method of handling objects. Good manual handling practice is not always immediately thought of as a skill. This workshop aims to explain basic handling techniques in clear and simple terms.
Objectives
On completion of the workshop delegates should be aware of the principles of safe handling and general back care.
PROGRAMME
1. Introduction to manual handling.
2. The legal requirements for handling operations.
3. Responsibilities of employers and employees.
4. Avoiding the need for manual handling.
5. Correct handling techniques and posture.
6. Practical applications of handling.
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SAFE WORKING WITH DISPLAY SCREEN EQUIPMENT
HALF DAY
Who should attend?
Employees, managers who use Display Screen Equipment on whatever scale.
Aims
This course will enable delegates to understand the:
Implications on the use of VDU equipment to the human body.
Obligations on employers for assessment of workstations, scheduling of work and training.
The ergonomic factor in the use of workstations.
PROGRAMME
1. Introduction: 2. Implications on Hardware:* Background * The screen* Definitions * The keyboard* Effects on the body
3. Implications on the environment: 4. Workstation Design:* Lighting * Furniture* Space
5. Obligations on Employers:* Examination of existing workstations* Scheduling of work
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RISK ASSESSMENT
FOR TEACHERS
FOUR HOURS
This course can if required be delivered in two separate sessions to fit in with the school day e.g. 3.30pm to 5.30pm.
Who should attend?
Teachers from both Primary and Secondary Schools.
Aims
To outline current legislation as it affects teaching staff in school classrooms, workshops etc.
Explain the process of risk assessment and the teachers role within the process.
Consider potential hazards to pupils, teachers and others in the education environment.
To consider the relevant sources of information and instruction on safe procedures.
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SAFE USE OF ACCESS EQUIPMENT
HALF DAY WORKSHOP
Who should attend?
Employees who use ladders and other access equipment in the course of their duties. Caretakers, library staff, maintenance staff etc.
Aim
Ladders are an essential piece of equipment required for a wide variety of tasks and can be extremely dangerous. It is essential that they are used correctly.
The regulations require that people carrying out their duties are competent. For the purpose of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992, a person shall be regarded as being competent where they have had sufficient training and knowledge. This workshop will provide the information to comply with the regulations.
PROGRAMME
Facts and Specific Legislation I the use of access equipment.
Provision on use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
Guidance on the use of Stepladders.
Guidance on the use of Extension Ladders.
Practical exercise using ladders.
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COMPETENCY IN GENERAL - RISK ASSESSMENTS
ONE DAY WORKSHOP
Who should attend?
Those in roles which involve conducting or co-ordinating risk assessments.
Line Managers
Supervisors
Aim
To produce competent risk assessors who are able to cover the broad range of assessments within their workplace required by health and safety legislation.
Objectives
On completion of the workshop delegates should:
Have an appreciation of modern risk driven health and safety legislation and its implications for risk assessment needs.
Be competent to carry out risk assessments as required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
Have the practical skills necessary for adapting risk assessment techniques to a wide variety of application areas.
Understand record keeping requirements and Implications.
Recognise and understand the limits of their competence.
Course Contents
Background to risk assessment Extent of liability Principles of risk assessment Workplace hazards Likelihood estimation Risk ranking and prioritising for action Understanding task based assessment Practical exercise in completing risk assessments Monitoring and reviewing risk assessments Sources of additional help.
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CONTROL OF SUBSTANCES HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH AWARENESS COURSE
HALF DAY
Who should attend?
The course is aimed at those who use hazardous substances, supervisors and their managers.
Aims
To ensure delegates gain an appreciation of the nature of hazardous substances and understand their responsibilities under legislation.
Objectives
At the end of the workshop, delegates will be understand
The fundamental principles of COSHH
The potential effects of the substances which are in use
The likely routes of entry into the body of substances hazardous to health
The use of risk assessments, monitoring and health surveillance
The risk of exposure to substances hazardous to health
The principles of control measures
The reasons behind the requirement to report faults/breakdowns in control measures and to report such faults promptly
How to use the appropriate emergency procedures
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FIRE SAFETY AWARENESS
HALF DAY
Who should attend?
All new employees, redeployed/transferred employees, supervisors and managers
Aim
To ensure that delegates understand how fires start and what to do in an emergency situation with regard to fighting a fire and evacuating safely from the affected area.
Objectives
At the end of the session delegates will
Be able to identify the three elements needed to create a fire
Understand the legal duties which are placed upon the employer and employee
Recognise the risks within the workplace and home
Understand and be able to practice basic fire precaution control measures
Be fully conversant with the organisation/department’s fire procedures
Understand the need to maintain ready access to fire exits and routes
Know the quickest evacuation route from their respective areas
Be able to identify the various types of fire extinguishers used in their departments
Understand the toxic nature of smoke in confined fire situations
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MANAGING HEALTH AND SAFETY IN EDUCATION
ONE DAY
Who should attend?
Head Teachers, Safety Co-ordinators and other Senior Managers involved in managing health and safety in education.
Aim
The aim of this course is to provide delegates with the necessary knowledge to implement health and safety procedures within their own establishment.
Objectives
Health and safety as a line management function
The financial implications of occupational accidents and ill-health
Main legislative requirements including penalties
Statutory document requirements
Root causes of accidents
Non-prescriptive approach to health and safety based on risk assessments
Principals of risk assessment and,
The need to constantly manage health and safety
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